. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ngly at his atrocious ])ietures, I love pictures—and I have many of them—beautiful photographs—of TnyseJf, yousmile, and when he continues, These [)ieUares wero paJnted by theold masters: they painted these pictures and tlien they—theyexpired, you hardly know what it is that inalces you lauj^h out-right, and when Josh Billings says in liis Proverbs, wiser than Sol-omons, Youd bettor not know so mueh, than know so manythings that aint so, the same vein is struck, bid, the t(!xl,-books failto explai
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ngly at his atrocious ])ietures, I love pictures—and I have many of them—beautiful photographs—of TnyseJf, yousmile, and when he continues, These [)ieUares wero paJnted by theold masters: they painted these pictures and tlien they—theyexpired, you hardly know what it is that inalces you lauj^h out-right, and when Josh Billings says in liis Proverbs, wiser than Sol-omons, Youd bettor not know so mueh, than know so manythings that aint so, the same vein is struck, bid, the t(!xl,-books failto explain scientifically the cause of our inirih. The wit of Charles Browne is of the most (sxalted kind. It isonly scholars and those thoroughly acquainted with tli(i subtlety ofour language who fully ajtpnieiate it. His wit is g(^ncrally aJtouthistorical personages like Cromwell, (Jarrick or Shakesjiearo, or aburlesque on different styles of writing, like his l^rench novel, wiionhifalutin plirases of tragridy coine from the elodhoppwwho— sells soap and thrice—refuses a ducal (loroniil,..
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